Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally by Robert Kourik

Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally by Robert Kourik

Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally is a classic US bestseller. It is the authoritative text on edible landscaping, featuring a step-by-step guide to designing your own aesthetic yet productive environment using vegetables, fruits, flowers and herbs for a combination of ornamental and culinary purposes. It includes descriptions of plants for all temperate habitats; methods for improving soil; tree pruning styles that suit you and your trees; and even gourmet recipes using low-maintenance plants. There are sections on attracting beneficial insects with companion plants, and using planting to shelter your home from erosion, heat, wind and cold. Presenting such a wealth of information in an accessible and absorbing way is certainly no mean feat but Kourik manages it with aplomb, and will soon have you creating a world of both beauty and abundance.

Kourik's color photos and Massion's art effectively illustrate a text that fulfills the title's promiseThe author's advice is sound and practical although the reader may bridle at his tone at times. (Attempting a chatty informality, for example, he orders one to find a comfortable chair and leaf through the book.) Otherwise, this is a valuable guide to the holistic approach to gardening, which relies on natural fertilizers and avoids chemicals. The author begins with suggestions for designing plots according to environment, space available, personal preferences. (The pictures prove that areas featuring vegetables, herbs, fruit- and nut-bearing trees and other edibles can be beautiful.) Kourik, who frequently appears on TV and lectures nationally, includes recipes that use the wide variety of foods featured here. Publishers Weekly

Robert Kourik is a landscape architect who has taken on design projects of all sizes, shapes and textures, water gardens, paths and patios, elegant arbors, habitat gardens, innovative home playgrounds, outdoor barbecue areas, deer-resistant gardens, to name just a few. Robert believes that it is thanks to, not despite, his lack of formal training that he is able to interpret this new interdisciplinary and original approach to gardening and landscaping. His work focuses primarily on organic, natural, sustainable, integrated systems, using permaculture and appropriate horticulture methods.

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ISBN 13	9781856230261
ISBN 10	1856230260
Title	Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally
Author	Robert Kourik
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Chelsea Green Publishing Co
Year published	2005-03-30
Number of pages	374
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.